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CONTRIBUTION TO THE 



broader and more confluent. The paired fins blackish, 1st dorsal with pale base, soft dorsal with dark borderod, 

 large pale spots at base. Three dark bands radiate from orbit to opercular margin, the middle one bifurcating. A 

 similar band from prcorbital across cheek. Throat unspotted. 

 St. Martins, Dr. R. E. van Rijgersma. 



EPINBPHELUS HTRIATTJS, Blocll. 



New Providence, Bahama Is. ; St. Croix, Dr. R. E. Griffith. 



EriNEFnELUS ormnattjs, Cope, sp. nov. 



Radii D. XI. 1C. A. III. 8. Dorsal spines subequal. Caudal fin rounded ; pectorals and ventrals subequal, ex- 

 tending a little beyond vent. Eye 4.25 times in length of head. Head 3.5 in total length; depth not quite four 

 times in the same. Preoperculum with convex, sharply serrated margin, and three coarser teeth at the angle. Three 

 opercular spines, the superior obsolete. Scales on mandible and muzzle. Twelve rows above lateral line at V dor- 

 sal spine . Length six inches. 



Brown, two darker subquadrate spots at origin dorsal fin, the first marking four interspaces, commencing at R. Ill; 

 the second measuring three, commencing at D. IX. A black spot across caudal peduncle above, as in 8. strialus. A 

 large yellow or red spot between the dorsal spots and one behind the second, and three rows of the same on the 

 sides. The upper row of two, large and distant ; second, of throe smaller ; the third, of six or seven; smaller still, and 

 near the belly. A similar spot behind upper angle of pectoral and several on head and jaws. The paired fins with 

 broad dark margin ; caudal and anal with narrow light margin outside of this. 



From Panama. Found by Dr. W. S. W. Ruschcnberger, Prest. Academy Natural Sciences.* 



This species appears to bo allied to the 8. nivtatut, Cuv. Val. 



Skrranus ooronatus. Cuv. Val. II., 871. Gthr. Catal. B. M., 124. 



St. Croix, R. E. Griffith ; New Providence, Bahamas, II. C. Wood, M. D. 



Skruanus ouatamhi. Cuv. Val. II., 381. Gthr. Catal. B. M., 120. 



New Providence, II, C. Wood ; St. Kitts, B. H. Lightfoot ; St. Croix, R. E. Griffith and Capt. Thos. Davidson. 



Bbbkantjs guativere. Cuv. Val. II., 384. Poey, Synopsis, Pise. Cub., 364. 



New Providence, II. C. Wood, M. D. 



PLECTROrOMA Cni.ORURTJM. C. V. 



St. Croix, Thos. Davidson and Dr. R. E. Griffith. 



Plectropoma gtjttavarium. Poey. P. melanorhina, Guich. Sagra's Cuba., I. f. 1. 



St. Croix, Dr. R. E. Griffith. 



Pi.ECTnoroMA crocota. Cope, sp. nov. 



Form gibbous ; depth 2.2 in length without caudal ; length of head three times in same. Eye 3.5 fimos in head, 

 (including spine) 5.4ths of interorbital width. Anterior rays of soft dorsal little more elevated than last rays of spinous 

 fin. Radii D. X. 15. A. III. 7. Ventrals to anal ; pectoral to first soft ray of anal ; caudal moderately emarginato. 



Front concave in profile ; muzzle a little longer than an orbits diameter. Eight equal teeth on the lower limb of 

 the preoperculum. End of maxillary to lino of posterior margin of pupil. Scales 12 81 — —32. Length 4.5 inches. 



•EHSflPHEXtTS BBAOHTSOHA. Cope, Sp. nov. 



Radii D. XI. ]». A. III. 8. I'reoperculmn slightly convex, Willi two short, course teeth at angle. Three opercular spines well developed. Dorsal 

 •pines long; fourth (longest) nearly equal muzzle and orbit. Bye 5.25 In head I head 3.33 times in total length. Depth body 8,5 times In same. Two scales 

 on mandibles and maxlllie ; minute ones on preorbttftl alone. Rows above lateral line, 15. Caudal tin gently convex : pectoral and ventral equal, reach- 

 ing vent. Length, eight inches. 



Color in alcohol pale reddish llrown, with numerous pale, (probably red in life) spols on the middle and lower parts of the sides, which are half to 

 quarter as large as tin' pupil. A blackish baud from preorbilal bone above maxillary to the end of the latter. Just below Its extremity a white (red) band 

 extends in the same line to the Interoperculum. No other marks on the head. Ali the flns except first dorsal broadly blackish bordered; the latter 

 narrowly bordered by the same. The ventral membrane contains a pigment probably brilliant in life, 



Rio Janeiro. Brazil. Dr, W, S, W. Ruschenberger's collection. 



The species is not unlike the S. diehropterus in characters, but It has the ray formula XI. 17. 



